Patch 5.2 Hotfixes: April 9 - Durumu Maze Improvements

While a new 5.3 PTR build just hit, Blizzard is still paying attention to 5.2 player concerns. Durumu el Olvidado's maze was never a player favorite, and it just got some improvements. These improvements were added to the hotfix blog on April 9th.

Abominación mutada effect once again reduces his damage taken from non-Fully Mutated players by 75% on 10-player and 25-player Heroic difficulty only.

Bug Fixes

Fixed a crash that occured when Gnomes or Taurens log into the game while riding a mount over water.

Bashiok

Late in the 5.2 PTR cycle we found that the Durumu el Olvidado smoke effects during the maze phase were causing debilitating performance issues for some users’ computer hardware configurations. We made a fairly last-minute change to the cloud effect that wasn’t quite what we had first planned on using, and as you’re likely aware, made traversing the maze more difficult than we had intended.

Last night we released a fast patch (you can read more on these small client patches here) in addition to a standard hotfix, which both work to improve the readability of the maze visual, as well as make the way the maze appears a bit more intuitive. These changes will be noted in a future hotfix blog update.

It being Tuesday and all, we’re eager to hear how these improvements impact your runs tonight and/or later this week. Let us know in the comments below!